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//\/\\ Thoughts on today's dynamic exchanges 1.2.15 @aMMPh

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Thoughts from //\/\\ to @HabitatPlanners & also Everyone on 1.1.15

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@aMMPh Notes to our World Community 12.14.14

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Neil MarceLlo speakING with //\/\\ 9.28.14

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Sew Brave

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Sounds from Thursday afternoon

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"A Woody Perennial Polycultures (WPP) is an assemblage of plant species that aims to mimic the structure and function of natural ecosystems to sustainably produce an agricultural yield while simultaneously restoring ecosystem services. Rather than perpetuating the separation of nature and humans, this system attempts to break down the dichotomy between ecological restoration and agriculture. This concept has grown and evolved out of fields such as agroecology, agroforestry, permaculture, silvopasture, carbon farming, and ecological restoration, but the application of this paradigm to large-scale industrial agriculture is a relatively new idea. "

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Equal parts natural history, elegy, and environmental outcry, Joel Greenberg’s “A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction” has been published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the last passenger pigeon’s death. Greenberg, a bird blogger and the author of “A Natural History of the Chicago Region,” among other books, writes with a naturalist’s curiosity about the birds. But the central question that Greenberg sets out to answer is how a bird could go from a population of billions to zero in less than fifty years.

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We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole

- Henri Cartier Bresson

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"This week, scientists, farmers and sustainable food systems advocates will gather on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to celebrate an unusual group of honored guests: 29 new varieties of broccoli, celery, kale, quinoa and other vegetables and grains that are being publicly released using a novel form of ownership agreement known as the Open Source Seed Pledge. The pledge, which was developed through a UW-Madison-led effort known as the Open Source Seed Initiative, is designed to keep the new seeds free for all people to grow, breed and share for perpetuity, with the goal of protecting the plants from patents and other restrictions down the line. "These vegetables are part of our common cultural heritage, and our goal is to make sure these seeds remain in the public domain for people to use in the future," says UW-Madison horticulture professor and plant breeder Irwin Goldman, who helped write the pledge."